While I don’t hate it as much as I’ve disliked some of the smaller assistants in the past, it’s still not as useful as basic assistant was in say 2017 before they killed the shopping list in favor of the grocery delivery app they ran for 6 months, or killed a number of integrations over the years.

While the Google Home scripting interface is great, there are no variables or saved states so you can’t do interesting Home Assistant level stuff with them.

Gemini still hallucinates so much I can’t call it reliable.

I have to listen to any of the LLM assistants with the same skepticism I use when watching a White House press conference cause a huge amount of what they say is just bullshit.

And no red hats, obviously AI

YC can die in a fire and it wouldn’t be karma enough.

We’re just weeks away from Germany canceling the order followed by a same day announcement by Trump that Russia has agreed to purchase 150 of the F35s to replace those illegally lost to Ukraine.

Clip from the press conference in front of an American flag draped over the Statue of Liberty: Waves arms around like accordion

Trump: Many people say it’s the biggest bestest deal in US history. Strong men, brave men in the Panagon have come up to me, tears in their eyes, saying to me ‘Sir, we have never seen such amazing deal making in our lives, never could have imagined it!’

Swastacar and Trumpcession should share Word of the Year awards.

Here comes France again to help Americans from royal persecution.

It’s 1778 all over again.

The Product Manager made the mistake of having the keyword be overtly banned by the SWEs.

What was intended was an algorithmic change to hide the content entirely and divert to “acceptable” topics while obfuscating the ban.

It will be corrected shortly.